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DIED. FAYE DANCER, 77, former star of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League and the inspiration for Madonna's character in the film A League of Their Own; after breast cancer surgery; in Los Angeles...
...Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to help it build a European strategy. Hey, it worked for Nixon. Aggressive Treatment It might be time for the drug industry to pop an anti-anxiety pill. Twenty-nine U.S. states sued Bristol-Myers Squibb, alleging it blocked cheaper versions of its breast-cancer drug Taxol. The Banking Blues UBS Warburg will cut 10% of its London investment bankers because of the industry-wide downturn in trading. This is only the latest round of cuts to hit the financial sector, which lost about 25,000 staff last year. INDICATORS Breaking Windows' Hold Dell Computer...
...lesson in the age of Botox is that a sizable group of women fit somewhere on the vanity scale between Eager Surgery Candidate and Making Do with What God and My Miracle Bra Gave Me. So last spring when a Florida plastic surgeon introduced a device to nonsurgically increase breast tissue using suction, not a few A- and B-cup bosoms heaved with hope. Makers of the Brava bra, which consists of two plastic shells linked by tubes to a suction device, promised an increase of up to one cup size after 10 hours a day of wear over...
Often the best way to prevent cancer is also the most wrenching. Researchers report that women with the so-called breast-cancer gene can cut their risk of breast and ovarian cancers 75% if they have their ovaries and Fallopian tubes removed. Harsh medicine indeed, but women with the genetic mutation face a 50% to 85% lifetime risk of developing breast cancer and a 15% to 40% risk of ovarian cancer. Removing the ovaries helps prevent breast cancer by stemming the flow of estrogen, which spurs tumor growth; the procedure helps prevent ovarian cancer by eliminating the organs, though tumor...
...another study, women with early-stage breast cancer that had spread to several lymph nodes significantly cut the risk of recurrence simply by replacing one of the standard chemotherapy agents with a drug called docetaxel (Taxotere). By blocking cancer cells' division and growth process, docetaxel reduces the risk of tumor recurrence...